Blinkybill

Seems a bit excessive to me , I only use my aircon on hot days or when my windscreen fogs up in winter. Blame it on the wife not liking car fumes.

A big thanks to Shane_85 on his suggestion of Tridon wipers. Got them from Supercheapauto with a 20% off voucher, came to about $10.50 for set of rubber refills. The curved metal inserts fitted into the rubber exactly and only had to cut one of them off shorter. Wiping fine and much cheaper than any other option.

No, you are getting spot on what we get in Sydney, all urban driving with air con on pretty much 100% of the time.

Where does this come from? Can I take this to my Toyota Dealer and say that is how much you should charge me.

Just for a laugh, I decided to phone up Toyota to parts department the price for a set of Aurion wipers blades. Answer from Toyota: $44 Me: You mean that's for a set right, two blades. Toyota: No that's each. $88 for a set. At this point I bit my tongue. I was going to add in the next sentence. Me: You've got to be joking, that's a friggin rip off. Will check out the Tridon wiper blades recommended earlier in post.

That's true they can squeak when new. But if you persevere for a bit, they then settle in and then they actually last a really long time. I've had a set of graphite ones in my car which 6 months down the track are already streaking. On another car, a set of silicone ones were still better 2 years down the track.

My wipers are now close to 3 years old and definitely need replacing. I usually go with some of the silicone wiper blades (but only the clear ones) which I have found wipe well and last for a long time. HOWEVER, Toyota have been very shafty with the Aurion, they fashion the metal clasp/claw on each end of the wiper to such that these generic wiper blade refills can't lock in. First time I've seen it. Now I'm stuck with getting Toyota original blades. Does anyone know the cost. Bosch ones would be ok but at $65 off ebay the cost is a bit extreme.

Does anyone know how to get the wipers off the arms on the Aurion. I want to replace the blades with a set I've bought and can't seem to figure it out. They are different to the last 2 cars which were just standard. Would appreciate any advice from someone who's done it before.

Harsh reality unfortunately. We are doing 100% city driving. Sydney suburban driving max 60km/hr. Getting 15L/100km. Aurion's not meant to be a pure city car. We have to live with it.

I rang my Toyota Dealer and explained the car has done 4000km since 6 months ago and he basically said that the service letter sent was an automated one, and that the Aurion only requires a yearly service and should be fine to wait another 6 months.

When I said 2 year mark, I mean my car is 18 months old. It was serviced at 12 months of age. I was planning to do it again at 2 years of age, but now at 18 months, they have sent us a reminder to do a service. Should I leave it as I planned for another 6 months if the car is running fine?

Resurrecting an old thread. I tend to service the Aurion as specified every 12 months or 15,000km. We did the first at 12 months (not counting the 1000km one). Our dealership has sent us a reminder 6 months later. I was not planning on servicing until 1 year later. I thought this was for severe cases. The car however is a city car, mostly stop start suburban driving. Is it fine to wait for the 2 year mark? I have an older car which is meant to have 6 month 10000km service intervals so I tend to do it more frequently in that car. I've always been told that oil etc should be changed more frequently than every 12 months but I have just been going by the toyota manual.

My bad, I was looking a your post and disregarded the fact that you were quoting TRD AURION OWNER. I too am getting similar 14-15L/100km but on the Aurion but our car gets next to no freeway.

I'm not sure if you guys with a trip computer have an average speed reading but I think even if you are calculating manually this would give a good idea of the kind of driving that you are doing. Sera709 it's clear that if you are doing 300-400 km every 4 days, then I'd think that some of that would have to be freeway driving, (unless you're spending 2 hours each way driving to and from work) I think people who are averaging 14-15 L/km will probably be doing true city only driving and that might be demonstrated by an average speed of 25-30km/hr over a tank. Whilst people who consistently claim to be getting 9-11L/km are probably getting closer to 40-50km/hr average speed over a tank.

You want to define Sydney City driving. I'll do it for you. Chatswood to Rockdale. 30 km taking 1 1/2 hours. Would love to see what fuel economy your Aurion would get doing MY city driving.